Alexei Vladimir Filippenko (born July 25, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, CA. He received a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1984, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow. His research focuses on supernova and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths.

14.12.2009 by By Helena Zhu/Epoch Times Staff "SN 2007bi was the explosion of an exceedingly massive star," said AlexFilippenko, a professor in the Astronomy Department at UC Berkeley. "But instead of turning into a black hole like many other heavyweight stars, its core went ...

14.12.2011 Li and UC Berkeley colleagues, including Bloom and AlexFilippenko, UC Berkeley professor of astronomy, analyzed high-resolution Hubble data and calculated that the companion could not have been a red giant star, which ...

04.10.2012 [UC Berkeley] - Astronomer AlexFilippenko shows he's ready for take-off in a jet fighter piloted by Lt. Mark Tedrow, one of the Navy's elite Blue Angels team. Noelle Filippenko photo. For the lucky few, soaring over San Francisco with the Blue Angels is the dream of

03.10.2012 [San Francisco Chronicle] - Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot from Danville who safely ditched a US Airways plane in the Hudson River in New York, and Professor AlexFilippenko, a UC Berkeley astronomer. "I feel 30 again!" Sullenberger, 61, wrote on his Twitter account

19.09.2012 [NBCNews.com] - As AlexFilippenko, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a conference talk earlier this year, "The Big Bang could've occurred as a result of just the laws of physics being there. With the laws of physics, you can get

18.09.2012 [Huffington Post] - As AlexFilippenko, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a conference talk earlier this year, "The Big Bang could've occurred as a result of just the laws of physics being there. With the laws of physics, you can get

05.10.2012 [Daily Californian] - UC Berkeley astronomy professor AlexFilippenko took to the skies on Wednesday when he flew with the U.S. Navy's flight demonstration squadron — the Blue Angels. He was chosen to fly with the Angels as part of the Navy's Key Influencer Program, which

13.09.2012 [Daily Californian] - “This event also provides an interesting educational opportunity, reminding us of the importance of math and science in our lives,” said UC Berkeley astronomy professor AlexFilippenko, in an email sent to students. Adelyn Baxter is the city news editor.

17.02.2010 by Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff "SN 2007bi was the explosion of an exceedingly massive star," says AlexFilippenko, a professor in the Astronomy Department at UC Berkeley whose team helped obtain, analyze, and interpret the data. "But instead of turning into a black ...

14.01.2010 by Buzz Skyline Another ESSENCE scientist, AlexFilippenko of the University of California, Berkeley, said that the antimatter-supernova mechanism might be important in locating these first stars. By Phillip F. Schewe Inside Science News Service ...